Please tell me I am wrong, but it looks like a picture of somebody and you've blurred the foreground and added a bit of lighting and changed the colours a bit? What on earth is so good about that splatter. I enjoyed your older stuff.

I'd give you examples of what I mean, but looking at your first post you haven't linked to your old port, or posted any old work, and I am far too lazy right now to find things too.

But it just seems you either can't be arsed with it as much? I don't know, what do I know?

Finally, someone I know of that has CS4 that I can ask for help other than Ecto!

I was joking. Anyway, it's alot better than what I did when I first got CS4, I like it, I know it's not a whole lot but it looks good to me, a bit of text couldn't have gone amiss however.

Also, referring to your kew gardens pieces, I saw a sign in town the other week advertising kew gardens but it was just a bland chalkboard looking sign with chalk writing on it, your signs would have been so much better.

Love the bottom three, excellent work Rob. The red piece maybe covers the word 'Kew' up a bit too much, but other than that it's brilliant. The one below that seems a bit more simplistic but is still great nonetheless. The last one would be my favourite but I don't really like the very bright blues and whites at the top of the poster.

Oh and Guugs, my exam is based on the word 'Sanctuary' (not a great theme, but it's what the board gave us) and we were advised to base it around Kew Gardens, as it's worked well in the past apparently. To be honest I'm quite happy with my results, I just wish my Graphics teacher would recommend a freelance artist he knows for an apprenticeship or something of the like - he was one himself after all.

Really, commentors need to read the whole post rather than just seeing the work.

I did read his post.

Everything he has done in that piece I commented on, I could do in CS2, and someone else could do in CS3. It is not new features he is familiarising himself at all. But hey, if you will be a dick then I simply won't comment. It isn't like I post here much anymore anyway.